WebGL Game Development - Softcover

Sumeet Arora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849699798 ISBN 13: 9781849699792

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2014

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Gain insights into game development by rendering complex 3D objects using WebGL

About This Book

Load and render complex 3D objects in WebGL using JavaScript
Apply textures and lighting to game scenarios
Load rigged 3D models and Skeletal Animations
Add Physics Engines to WebGL games

Who This Book Is For

If you are a programmer who wants to transform the skill of blending imagination and throughput in games, this is the book for you. You need to have a good understanding of object-oriented programming, JavaScript, and vector and matrix operations.

What You Will Learn

Load 3D objects exported from Blender using WebGL
Understand texture mapping and apply textures to 3D objects
Add lights and a camera to a WebGL scene
Create simple object animations utilizing matrix transformations
Fiddle with complex object animations such as skeletal animations
Get to grips with user interaction and picking
Build multiplayer games in WebGL
Handle difficult concepts such as animating skinned models using matrix transformations, quaternion mathematics, and linear interpolation
Apply physics engine to your WebGL game

In Detail

WebGL, the web implementation of Open GL, is a JavaScript API used to render interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser, without the need for plugins. It helps you create detailed, high-quality graphical 3D objects easily. WebGL elements can be mixed with other HTML elements and composites to create high-quality, interactive, creative, innovative graphical 3D objects.

This book begins with collecting coins in Super Mario, killing soldiers in Contra, and then quickly evolves to working out strategies in World of Warcraft. You will be guided through creating animated characters, image processing, and adding effects as part of the web page canvas to the 2D/3D graphics. Pour life into your gaming characters and learn how to create special effects seen in the most powerful 3D games. Each chapter begins by showing you the underlying mathematics and its programmatic implementation, ending with the creation of a complete game scene to build a wonderful virtual world.

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Product Description

This book is setbystep, examplebased tutorial that provides details on gaming logic using Web GL. If you are a programmer who wants to transform the skill of blending imagination and throughput in games, this is the book for you. You need to have a good understanding of objectoriented programming, JavaScript, and vector and matrix operations.

About the Author

Sumeet Arora

Sumeet Arora is a tech entrepreneur. He founded Evon Technologies, a consultancy for mobile and web development, and Logic Simplified, a game development company. He holds the position of CTO at Evon and works as a consultant for Logic Simplified. He has worked as an architect consultant for scalable web portals for clients across the globe. His core expertise lies in 3D rendering technologies and collaboration tools. For the past four years, he has been working with various clients/companies on multiplatform content delivery. His own passion towards gaming technologies has helped him help his clients in launching games on various platforms on both web and mobile. Currently his company, Logic Simplified, helps new gaming ideas to launch in the market.

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